winecfg: Problems with audio configuration

Robert Reif reif at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 4 06:39:30 CST 2006


Andreas Mohr wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:14:02AM -0500, Robert Reif wrote:
>  
>
>>Saulius Krasuckas wrote:
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>>>* On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Robert Reif wrote:
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>>>>The crash occurs in libartsc.so.0 as shown above.
>>>>  
>>>>
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>>>And why it can't be libartscbackend.so.0 ?
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>>The point is that it is not crashing in winecfg or any wine code at 
>>all.  Adding an exception handler to catch a crash in an external 
>>library may work but it's a workaround for a broken external library.  
>>The external library needs to be fixed.
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>>
>Depends. If we are invoking it with "invalid" or "uncommon" parameters,
>then we do have something to be "fixed" (read: corrected) in Wine.
>Could that be the case here?
>However of course the external library ideally should never crash on
>invalid input, so they also have a bug to be fixed.
>
>Andreas Mohr
>
>  
>
Did you look at the code?  The line:
    ARTS_Init();
is what's crashing!  This is the first call to the library.  Clearly an 
arts library bug.




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